The New Mexico Sec. of State has announced the final ballot for the June congressional primary elections. It doesn’t look like there are any surprises: everybody who prequalified at the party nominating conventions is aready on the ballot. However, I guess everybody else running for the three seats being vacated by Rep. Steve Pearce, Rep. [...]

I’m participating in the April Photo Challenge, and here’s my first image. The theme for the challenge is “entropy” or “devolution.” Basically, we’re looking for old and/or busted stuff and then taking photos!
Trevor Carpenter, the guy behind Photowalking.org and Photochallenge.org, has said “committing to shooting once a day, for a month, is not as hard [...]

Looks like Big Bill has finally made an endorsement:
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, the nation’s only Hispanic governor, is endorsing Sen. Barack Obama for president, calling him a “once-in-a-lifetime leader” who can unite the nation and restore America’s international leadership.
Link via Chris Bowers, who, like me, wonders if Richardson can sway any of New Mexico’s [...]

So, I’m heading to New York this morning, to spend four nights in the Greatest City in the World™. I hope you’re all duly impressed. I’ll be doing my best to blog, and you can bet I’ll be snapping photos during the trip, so please stay tuned during the coming week.
Ta ta for now!

It looks like MapLight has finally added a slew of candidates from New Mexico to their database. I’ve got four MapLight widgets on the sidebar, broken down by the Senate race and congressional district, and you can see that Rep. Heather Wilson is beating both Rep. Tom Udall and Rep. Steve Pearce in the money [...]

In the past 48 hours, Congresspedia (in conjunction with The Literary Outpost and OpenLeft) launched the Superdelegate Transparency Project. My editor (working from a café in Argentina while on vacation) drafted a pretty great support structure, while we imported a bunch of data volunteers have collected on the Democratic nomination.
The result is 55 pages — [...]

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So, these are the news digs. I’m sporting two domains for now, and, regardless of how you arrive (whether you head to www.livefromsilercity.com or go to www.avelinomaestas.com) this should be your eventual destination. There’s mostly cosmetic changes, though I do hope the new hosting service (thanks for the recommendation Scott) will make things a little [...]

Today, the GOP heavy hitters are fundraising to improve their chances in New Mexico: Dick Cheney is holding a D.C. event for Rep. Steve Pearce (similar to one he already headlined for Rep. Heather Wilson) and Karl Rove will be in Artesia helping raise cash for the state Republican Party.
As regular readers know, this year [...]